Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

US President Donald Trump believes that a trilateral meeting with participation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and putin will take place. “I don't know about a bilateral meeting, but a trilateral one will happen,” Trump said.

“Ukraine has been waiting for a ceasefire agreement for 172 days. putin has not budged an inch. They do not want peace and real negotiations. This is evidenced by the recent attack on Kyiv,” – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Jan Lipavský said that at an informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers, among other things, they discussed how to make russia sit down at the negotiating table.

During a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi agreed that a ceasefire would signal that russia is ready for negotiations.

Federal Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz believes that putin was only pretending to be ready for personal negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “I strongly advocate that we – Europeans, together with the US government, carefully coordinate our next steps,” said the Chancellor.

According to the results of 2024, Ukraine entered the top three suppliers of agricultural products to Türkiye, accounting for 8.4 % of the country’s total imports in this segment and supplying goods worth $1.97 billion.

The USA has provided Kherson region with electric generators worth almost $1 million.

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Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union have discussed possible options for further sanctions pressure on russia. “The options include secondary sanctions against those who support russia’s war, as well as bans on imports and tariffs on russian products,” said EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas.

Chancellor of the FRG Friedrich Merz has explained the expansion of voluntary military service in Germany by citing the russian threat. “He (putin) wants to restore the old Soviet Union. And that includes part of my country,” Merz said.

russian gas company Gazprom reduced its net profit to shareholders by 5.7 % to 983 billion rubles in January–June 2025, from 1.04 trillion rubles in the same period last year. Gazprom’s net profit in the second quarter decreased by 17 % to 322.8 billion rubles.

The pipeline monopoly Transneft reduced its net profit attributable to IFRS shareholders in the first half of this year by 9.9 % to 153.4 billion rubles from 170.2 billion rubles a year earlier.

From 2026, russian stores may stop selling natural honey, which will be replaced by a so-called honey product. Due to the sharp increase in certification costs and stricter requirements, it has become unprofitable for beekeepers to sell to medical processors.

From September 1, Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the rf will not include information about the ways and methods of development, creation, and use of “new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances” in the unified register of prohibited websites.

The elimination of rural self-government and split-up of the land in Altai have proved to be a particularly sensitive issues for the residents of Mountain Altai, where almost 70 % of people live in rural areas (Gorno-Altaisk is the only city in the republic) – peasants are massively protesting against the local authorities. These are the largest protests in 20 years.

In July, the average salary of employees of budgetary organizations in belarus was 2,123.8 rubles before taxes. This amount is by 25 rubles, or 1.6 %, less than in June. At this, the real salaries of state employees, adjusted for inflation, also decreased in July – by 1.8 % compared to June.

The belarusian register of “dangerous” goods is regularly updated with ice cream, chocolate, and tea drinks from russia. The reasons vary: insufficient fat content in chocolate, milk fat substitutes in ice cream, mold in “vitamin” teas. But the trend is the same—the rb’s State Standard is increasingly tightening control of imports from its “big brother”.